Jane Fonda coming to Brisbane
Reader Pete Munro from Perth emails me this morning.
Hi Kev, Just wondering if you had heard anything of a rumour that “Hanoi” Jane Fonda has been invited to host a luncheon at the Brisbane Convention Centre on November 11th? Rumour started on a military forum I belong to, but I can’t find anything online about it.Well I did and she is coming to Brisvegas and is hosting a lunch for the Courier Mail Book Club Armed with this info I penned an email to the Courier Mail team and wait for their reply
Tammy Concannon The Courier-Mail BAM Bookclub Dear Tammy, I note Jane Fonda is booked to appear at the Convention Centre via the auspices of the CM Book Club on 11 November, 2005 – the day when the sacrifice of Veterans is commemorated. As I’m sure you are aware, Jane is a very contentious lady amongst the Veteran community and I have already received emails and tele calls re the timing of her appearance. The editor of the CM printed a letter from Bernie McGurgan in today’s CM on the subject and I will be posting on the subject in due course in my blog, http://www.kevgillett.net. I would like to think that the timing is due to factors other than it being aimed at the Veteran community although I recall last year on 11 November the CM carried an anti-defence piece by Luke McIlveen. I posted an article on that occasion and would like to think that the Courier Mail doesn’t have a bias against veterans and that the timing of this event is not part of a programme to denigrate Veterans. The article I wrote last years is here Few Veterans would argue that Jane Fonda has the right to be heard. I have no problem with that but I do have a problem with the timing. Could you please reassure me and my readers that the timing is coincidental and neither scheduled to maximize controversy nor aimed at denigrating Veterans. Yours truly, Kevin J Gillett,Should you want to email the Editors of the Courier Mail, the list is here. Tammy Concannon’s email address is theconcs@optusnet.com.au. Be polite now…you hear!
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Kevin, you may want to ask the same of radio station 4BC.
Rick
http://www.4bc.com.au/sites/4bc/RunScript.asp?Page=159&inEventID=11508&p=ASP\~Pg159.asp
http://www.bcec.com.au/www/index.cfm?fuseaction=whatson.eventdetails&eventid=362
I have sent a (polite) request to Ms Concannon suggesting that the choice of day for Hanoi Jane’s lunch is offensive to veterans (and why), and requested her to either cancel or reschedule.
Should be interesting to see any responses.
Thanks for the salvo from the big guns Kev, I hope they see just how reviled this woman is among Vietnam vets.
One can only hope that some conscientious Aussie vet will line up for three hours to spit on her, as happened in the US. Some quotes from Hanoi Jane:
On November 21, 1970 she told a University of Michigan audience of some two thousand students, “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist.” At Duke University in North Carolina she repeated what she had said in Michigan, adding “I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism. ” Washington Times July 7, 2000.
As the American POWs returned home in 1973, they spoke out about the inhumane treatment and torture they had suffered as prisoners of war. Their stories directly contradicted Jane Fonda’s earlier statements of 1972. Some American POWs such as Senator John McCain, a former Presidential candidate, stated that he was tortured by his guards for refusing to meet with groups such as Jane Fonda’s. Jane Fonda, in her response to these new allegations, referred to the returning POWs as being “hypocrites and liars.”
The Wall Street Journal (August 3, 1995) published an interview with Bui Tin who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. During the interview Mr. Tin was asked if the American antiwar movement was important to Hanoi’s victory. Mr. Tin responded “It was essential to our strategy” referring to the war being fought on two fronts, the Vietnam battlefield and back home in America through the antiwar movement on college campuses and in the city streets. He further stated the North Vietnamese leadership listened to the American evening news broadcasts “to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement.”
Visits to Hanoi made by persons such as Jane Fonda, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and various church ministers “gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.” Mr. Tin surmised that “America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.” Mr. Tin further advised that General Vo Nguyen Giap (Commanding General of the North Vietnam Army) said the 1968 Tet Offensive was a defeat.
I always wondered why she wasnt arrested and tried for treason – and hopefully shot, like any traitor in wartime.
Hey Kev
Just found the site mate… it’s amazing what you find under Google when you type in rant!
Only joking mate.
Where were you guys last year at this time when I was writing to all the city newspapers about Luke McIlveen’s story, the bastard!
But I’ve quietened down since.
I just want to point out something that maybe you guys are missing.
You know how to get a best seller for a novel? Get it banned. Yep then everyone wants it.
Want to know how to get a crowd to pay an overblown price to hear drivel? Yep by now you are gettimy drift ..upset someone!
All those letters to the editor! Those extra columns that have to be written in the newspapers, and hell it might get a run on the current affairs shows. Great publicity, and cheap.
It’s probably a sellout thanks to you guys.
Do your ranting here by all means – but don’t give them any publicity – that’s what they are counting on!
Greetings, You have not mentioned it, so maybe you have not seen the “Important Announcement” in yesterdays Courier. It advises Fonda has postponed her 2005 Australian Tour due to ill health. Cheers, HRT
HRT, One can only hope it is all true!
Re #5
Gee, do ya think it could be terminal?
Of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion….even Hanoi Jane.
In that vein, here’s mine: “Shoot her”
Why?
Treason: Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behaviour.
An act of deliberate betrayal.
A crime that undermines the offender’s government
Sedition:An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
and tending to cause the disruption
or overthrow of the government